News archive from 11 March 2014

Three years ago, Charlotte's entrepreneurial leaders united with a common goal: Stop the bleeding, said Dan Roselli, founder of Packard Place.
The Queen City was regularly losing entrepreneurs to cities such as San Francisco, New York City and Boston...

A year before launching his Republican U.S. Senate campaign, Greg Brannon urged people not to vote for the party's presidential nominee, saying a vote for Mitt Romney would &#x201C;advance tyranny.&#x201D;
Brannon also said Romney and...

Arlington police are asking for the public's help identifying a man who held up a bank in a grocery store Friday morning.
The man walked into the First Convenience Bank inside a grocery store in the 2400 block of Ascension Boulevard about 11:30 a.m....

SEATTLE -- The Seattle area saw big gains in public transit ridership last year, as more people boarded buses, trains and subways nationally than at any time since the 1950s.
Record ridership on Sound Transit drove the increase, with about 30.3...

The Panthers are always looking to find bigger and stronger forwards, so it should have been no surprise when Dale Tallon acquired Jimmy Hayes in a November trade.
At 6-6 and 220 pounds, Hayes has been encouraged to continue to use his big frame to...

WASHINGTON -- The Navy admiral nominated to be the next head of the troubled National Security Agency is expressing concerns about the U.S. government turning over the bulk collection of telephone data to an independent third party, saying it could...

AUSTIN — National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden says he has no regrets about revealing the agency's mass surveillance program.
Snowden spoke Monday via live video conference to a packed audience at the South By Southwest Interactive Festival....

WELLINGTON, New Zealand New Zealand Prime Minister John Key has announced plans for a referendum on whether to change the national flag.
He said in a speech Tuesday that he wants a nationwide vote held within the next three years.
The nation's current...

As Gov. Rick Scott gave his State of the State speech to open the legislative session last week, his cheering section looked on from the upstairs visitors box in the House chamber.
Scott's wife, Ann, was there with their two daughters, sons-in-law and...

WELLINGTON, New Zealand -- New Zealand Prime Minister John Key has announced plans for a referendum on whether to change the national flag.
He said in a speech Tuesday that he wants a nationwide vote held within the next three years.
The nation's...

The Cleveland Cavaliers can't seem to clear the hospital beds. Just as the injured guys start feeling better, more start falling down.
Anthony Bennett is expected to miss about three weeks after an MRI on Sunday revealed a strained patellar tendon in...

GOODYEAR, Ariz. -- Collin Cowgill's two-run homer off Trevor Bauer highlighted a three-run fifth inning that carried the Los Angeles Angels over the Cleveland Indians 8-3 Monday.
Cowgill played in 50 games last season for the Angels after coming from...

GREENSBORO, N.C. -- The all-Atlantic Coast Conference men's basketball teams and voting results for most improved player and sixth man of the year, announced Monday by the league and determined by a vote of 77 members of the Atlantic Coast Sports...